[petsc-dev] Naming for functions that are safe to call from threads

[Barry Smith]

 _k   _t   ?


On Feb 16, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Still like that better than _r.
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> Reentrancy is not a subset or superset of thread-safety. I certainly wasn't suggesting that we use _r to indicate thread-safety. Rather, I was asking whether we should use a shorter (possibly single-character) identifier, and perhaps something that indicated "CPU threads" so as not to confuse with device kernels.